Here Are 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs... As Voted By You!

The nominations were nominated, and the votes were voted, and now we have the final results: this year's official most anticipated TTRPGs--as voted by you! Well, a few thousand of you.

Just like we do every year, the EN World community votes on the games they are looking forward to. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Previous winners include 13th Age (2013), Star Wars Force & Destiny (2015), Rifts for Savage Worlds (2016), Trudvang Chronicles (2017), Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition (2018), Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (2019), Dune (2020 & 2021), Twilight 2000 (2021), Blade Runner (2022), Pendragon 6E (2023), and Shadow of the Weird Wizard (2024). What will be the most anticipated RPG of 2025?

Let's find out!

10) Starfinder 2E (Paizo Publishing)
The Starfinder Playtest Rulebook brings Starfinder into a new age of compatibility, as Starfinder switches to using the same rules engine that powers the popular Second Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Inside this playtest for the new edition, you’ll find six new classes, 10 ancestries, new skills, new feats, futuristic equipment including augmentations and upgrades, new science-fantasy spells, and more!

9) Alien - Evolved Edition (Free League)
Expanded and updated core rules and a new cinematic scenario for the award-winning RPG from Free League and 20th Century Studios. Based upon feedback from thousands of players over five years of adventures, the Evolved Edition of the Core Rulebook delivers an updated and streamlined version of the ALIEN RPG fans know and love, along with additional new artwork, new content, and a variety of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

8) 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
A New Edition of the Award-Winning Heroic Fantasy Game! The coolest and most fun parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming plus story-focused rules, now with updated class and kin powers, fearsome new abilities for your favorite monsters, and revamped icon connection mechanics!

13th Age 2E has been in this chart three years running! In both 2023 and 2024 it came 3rd in the poll!

7) Coriolis: The Great Dark (Free League)
Free League's original sci-fi RPG returns. Join expeditions to faraway stars and delve deep into ancient ruins.

6) Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome)
Dolmenwood is a fantasy adventure game set in a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Like traditional fairy tales, Dolmenwood blends the dark and whimsical, the wondrous and weird.

This is Dolmenwood's second appearance in this chart, coming in at #5 last year!

5) Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork (Modiphius)
Adventures in Ankh-Morpork, the Discworld tabletop roleplaying game, catapults you onto the streets of the Big Wahoonie, and once you've dusted yourself off you can adventure to your heart's content. With imagination and some shiny math rocks at your fingertips, your story on the Disc awaits. Based on the popular Discworld fantasy series by Sir Terry Pratchett, Adventures in Ankh-Morpork is an officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in its most recognisable city, complete with Sir Terry's iconic wit, humour, and humanistic satire.

4) Draw Steel (MCDM)
A Fantasy RPG where your character starts, at level 1, already a hero. Maybe even locally famous! You might meet in a tavern, or start in the middle of the action! Whether you’re a group of local heroes sent to investigate mysterious goings-on in the nearby haunted wood, or famous mercenaries plotting and scheming in the big city, the MCDM RPG makes building adventures and fighting monsters fun. Basically, any adventure or story you’re running in your current Fantasy RPG, you can do that in this game. Just, in a more straightforward and fun way, unburdened by sacred cows from the 1970s.

3) Daggerheart (Darrington Press)
Daggerheart is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of brave heroics and vibrant worlds that are built together with your gaming group. Create a shared story with your adventuring party, and shape your world through rich, long-term campaign play.

2) Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere (Brotherwise Games)
The Cosmere® RPG is a "living" RPG that will grow as Brandon Sanderson writes new novels and expands his universe. This original system is designed to tell standalone stories in the Stormlight™ or Mistborn® Settings -- or sweeping Worldhopper™ campaigns that move between different worlds and realms!

1) Legend in the Mist (Son of Oak)
A rustic fantasy tabletop RPG based on the acclaimed City of Mist. Spin a fireside tale of unlikely villagers setting out on a quest into a greater unknown world, rife with peril and mystery, in the vein of The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke, and many other classic fantasy stories, or create your own legendary realms with the game’s open-ended system.

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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE ANNUAL EN WORLD MOST ANTICIPATED TABLETOP RPG OF THE YEAR

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#​	2013​	2015​	2016​	2017​	2018​	2019​	2020​	2021​	2022​	2023​	2024​
1​	13th Age​	Star Wars Force & Destiny​	Rifts for Savage Worlds​	Trudvang Chronicles​	Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition​	Savage Worlds Adventure Edition​	Dune​	Dune/ Twilight2000 (joint)​	Blade Runner​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​
2​	Numenera​	Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition​	Mutant Crawl Classics​	Tales from the Loop​	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition​	Pathfinder 2nd Edition​	Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying​	-​	Broken Tales​	Dragonbane/Darkar och Demoner​	The Electric State​
3​	Star Wars Edge of the Empire​	Unified Rolemaster​	7th Sea 2nd Edition​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Kult: Divinity Lost​	Lex Arcana​	Cyberpunk Red​	The One Ring (2nd Edition)​	Pendragon 6E​	13th Age 2nd Edition​	13th Age 2nd Edition​
4​	Shadowrun 5th Edition​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Conan Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of​	Star Trek Adventures​	Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG​	The Expanse​	Fallout​	King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition​	Avatar Legends​	Household​	Pendragon 6E​
5​	Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition​	Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls​	DCC Lankhmar​	Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of​	RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha​	Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition​	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound​	Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)​	Mothership 1E​	Mothership 1E​	Dolmenwood​
6​	Firefly​	Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition​	RuneQuest 4​	Starfinder​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Dune RPG​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Rivers of London​	Rivers of London​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	Cohors Cthulhu​
7​	Fate Core​	Feng Shui 2​	Torg: Eternity​	The Witcher Roleplaying Game​	Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory​	John Carter of Mars​	Rivers of London​	Pathfinder for Savage Worlds​	Shadow of the Weird Wizard​	The Walking Dead Universe​	Daggerheart​
8​	Hillfolk​	Fantasy AGE​	Blue Rose AGE​	Coriolis​	The Expanse​	Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition​	Stargate​	Brancalonia - The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG​	Cy-Borg​	Warhammer 40K Imperium Maledictum​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​
9​	Torchbearer​	Paranoia​	Paranoia​	Delta Green Roleplaying Game​	Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition​	Things from the Flood​	Fading Suns 4E​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition​	Swords of the Serpentine​	Old Gods of Appalachia​	Mothership 1E​
10​	-​	Shadows of the Demon Lord​	Delta Green​	Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E​	Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny​	Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD​	Cortex Prime​	SLA Industries, 2nd Edition​	Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5e​	Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme​	Tales of the Valiant​

 

[mamba]

So, what exactly? How would have a poll like this even been "untilted"? I don't understand what sort of standard of purity you are aiming for.

as I said earlier, it is impossible to prevent nominees from reaching out to their backers, so the only thing that could be done is that in order to vote, you need to have been a member on the site for 6 months or so already, thereby preventing such campaigns from driving up votes by getting people to register, vote, and disappear

Ultimately I am not expecting a change, I just would prefer a result that is not influenced by ‘get out the vote’ campaigns, as unrealistic as that may be

 

[Reynard]

as I said earlier, it is impossible to prevent nominees from reaching out to their backers, so the only thing that could be done is that in order to vote, you need to have been a member on the site for 6 months or so already, thereby preventing such campaigns from driving up votes by getting people to register, vote, and disappear

Ultimately I am not expecting a change, I just would prefer a result that is not influenced by ‘get out the vote’ campaigns, as unrealistic as that may be

I don't expect @Morrus to tell us, but it might be interesting to know how consequential "registered just to vote" votes were in the poll.

Of course, for EN World, these "get out the vote" campaigns are likely an unqualified good thing, since they bring new users to the site.

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

as I said earlier, it is impossible to prevent nominees from reaching out to their backers, so the only thing that could be done is that in order to vote, you need to have been a member on the site for 6 months or so already, thereby preventing such campaigns from driving up votes by getting people to register, vote, and disappear

Ultimately I am not expecting a change, I just would prefer a result that is not influenced by ‘get out the vote’ campaigns, as unrealistic as that may be

There are a few problems with this idea:
1. People who have had accounts for 6 months are swayed by these requests.
2. People are genuinely excited for these games and being honest about it.
3. Most of the people are voting for 2 additional games, ones they are not swayed by.
4. Forum users are not and will never be statistically representative of tabletop RPG buyers.

 

[mamba]

There are a few problems with this idea:
1. People who have had accounts for 6 months are swayed by these requests.

it limits the sway, and that also was the limit of what I described. Marketing will always play a role, starting with the number of backers for your KS, and larger KS automatically translate into more potential votes

2. People are genuinely excited for these games and being honest about it.

then great, vote for it. Doesn’t sound like you needed the marketing arm to tell you to

3. Most of the people are voting for 2 additional games, ones they are not swayed by.

maximum, not a requirement, and it would still push the marketed ones up higher in the results compared to the others

4. Forum users are not and will never be statistically representative of tabletop RPG buyers.

agreed, but the result then would be representative of this forum, which is how it is being treated already

 

[Wolfpack48]

as I said earlier, it is impossible to prevent nominees from reaching out to their backers, so the only thing that could be done is that in order to vote, you need to have been a member on the site for 6 months or so already, thereby preventing such campaigns from driving up votes by getting people to register, vote, and disappear

Ultimately I am not expecting a change, I just would prefer a result that is not influenced by ‘get out the vote’ campaigns, as unrealistic as that may be

Lost cause. Anything you do will be countered by some other method. Accept that it’s just an informal poll that gauges interest in a limited way.

 

[Morrus]

4. Forum users are not and will never be statistically representative of tabletop RPG buyers.

So? The data isn’t being sold for market research purposes. It’s just a bit of fun we have every year.

I think folks are making this more complicated than it needs to be.

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

it limits the sway, and that also was the limit of what I described. Marketing will always play a role, starting with the number of backers for your KS, and larger KS automatically translate into more potential votes


then great, vote for it. Doesn’t sound like you needed the marketing arm to tell you to


maximum, not a requirement, and it would still push the marketed ones up higher in the results compared to the others


agreed, but the result then would be representative of this forum, which is how it is being treated already

Then how would you feel if Kickstarters asked people to sign up for ENWorld in June in anticipation of voting in December? How would you feel about the purity of the results then?

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

So? The data isn’t being sold for market research purposes. It’s just a bit of fun we have every year.

I think folks are making this more complicated than it needs to be.

The poll is really fun and I am happy to have contributed nominations and voted in it! I also want others to have fun and not expect anything deeper from it.

 

[Staffan]

I think folks are making this more complicated than it needs to be.

That's like 95% of the discussion on this board, though.

 

[Reynard]

That's like 95% of the discussion on this board, though.

More like 94.137%